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Guide to Malawi ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Information[edit | edit source]

Malawi is a country in Africa bordered by Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique. The official language is English.[1]

Malawi Map[edit | edit source]

Genealogy records are kept on the local level in Malawi.

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Jurisdictions[edit | edit source]

Malawi is divided into 28 districts within three regions.

Central Region
  1. Dedza
  2. Dowa
  3. Kasungu
  4. Lilongwe
  5. Mchinji
  6. Nkhotakota
  7. Ntcheu
  8. Ntchisi
  9. Salima

Northern Region
  1. Chitipa
  2. Karonga
  3. Likoma
  4. Mzimba
  5. Nkhata Bay
  6. Rumphi

Southern Region
  1. Balaka
  2. Blantyre
  3. Chikwawa
  4. Chiradzulu
  5. Machinga
  6. Mangochi
  7. Mulanje
  8. Mwanza
  9. Nsanje
  10. Thyolo
  11. Phalombe
  12. Zomba
  13. Neno

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Malawi," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malawi, accessed 27 April 2016.
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